For U.S. Kids, Another Poor
Academic Showing

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June Kronholz Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Dec. 15, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

For employers worried about the skills of future workers and parents concerned about how their children stack up academically, the latest international science and mathematics test results provide little cheer.

U.S. fourth graders made no progress in math since the last test, called Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey, or Timss, which is administered globally every four years. Eighth graders -- a grade that had...